182 STATUTE LAWS RELATING TO 



properly regulated, would supply the whole county 

 with salmon at a reasonable price. I think it pro- 

 per that the defects of the act should be particu- 

 larly scrutinized. 



43 Geo. III. 1803. 



Proprietors of fisheries in Dart, Teign, and Plym, 

 Devon, or in any streams of water communicating there- 

 with, are empowered at any time between the 4th of March 

 and the 4-th of December in TEIGN, " with legal and pro- 

 " per nets, or hooks and lines, to take, kill, or destroy any 

 " salmon, salmon peal, or salmon kind," and to offer to sale 

 such fish between the last mentioned periods. And also 

 between the 15th of February and the 15th of November 

 on DART and PLYM, " with legal and proper nets, or hooks 

 " and lines, to take, kill, or destroy any such salmon, salmon 

 " peal, or salmon kind, and to offer the same to sale ; and 

 " such fish taken in the periods aforesaid, shall be deemed 

 " and considered to be in season and proper to beMled." 



No one on Teign between the 4th December and 4th 

 March, and no one on Dart and Plym between the 15th 

 November and 15th February "shall take, kill, or destroy, 

 " pursue, liurt y or injure, or attempt or endeavour to seek, 

 " take, kill, or destroy, or to pursue, hurt, or injure any 

 " salmon, salmon peal, or salmon kind, or any of the 

 " spawn, brood, or fry of salmon, or any kepper or shed- 

 " der salmon by any act, means, or device whatsoever,- nor 

 " shall any person offer to sale, or dispose of any of the 

 " said fish so taken in the times last mentioned ; and no 

 " person shall pursue, take, kill, or destroy, or seek or 

 " endeavour to take, kill, or destroy, pursue, hurt, or in- 

 " jure any such fish by means of any engine or weapon 

 " called a spear, nor offer such speared fish to sale." 



" No rouges or sea trout shall be taken in the said rivers 



